LIBER welcomes final compromise text for EU’s Directive on Copyright in Digital Single Market - February 15, 2019
Negotiators from the European Parliament and the Council have agreed a final compromise text for the European Union's Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. The proposed Directive, which has been nearly three years in the making, contains many positive developments for Europe's library, education and research community.… Read More
ORCID announces formation of ORCID Austria Consortium - February 14, 2019
ORCID has announced the recent formation of an ORCID Austria Consortium, which aims to increase the uptake and relevance of the ORCID iD as a unique identifier for researchers. The ORCID Austria Consortium is the result of several years of nationwide discussion, initiated by the Scientometrics… Read More
Frontiers and Simon Fraser University form OA publishing agreement - February 14, 2019
Simon Fraser University (SFU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The Simon Fraser University Library (SFU Library) supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, Simon Fraser University has entered an institutional… Read More
ScienceOpen and IET partnership highlights power engineering research - February 11, 2019
ScienceOpen and The Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) have announced a partnership that integrates selected Open Access articles from IET’s power and energy journals in the ScienceOpen research discovery environment in the form of a featured collection. With nearly 40… Read More
HEAL-Link signs consortium membership agreement with ORCID - February 8, 2019
Greece's national consortium for academic and research institutions, HEAL-Link, has signed a consortium membership agreement with ORCID, effective January 1, 2019. All 52 HEAL-Link members will participate in the consortium and will benefit from premium-level ORCID membership. HEAL-Link (Hellenic Academic Libraries Link) will act as… Read More
First online seminar in the ICSTI 2019 Webinar series scheduled for February 14 - February 4, 2019
The International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI) has announced its first complimentary online seminar in the ICSTI 2019 Webinar series. The webinar 'From Information to Knowledge with AI' is scheduled for February 14, 2019, from10:30 am -12:00 noon EST, and will be hosted by… Read More
